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+'~ - ~~ --fir- ` -- ~ - ~~ -~----~ M:1 H.S. A a f‘ 7)— r ( eitte.:aunell. 2 .),,L;ir 2 WAterford. I uttl",,Ur,;!l, 7` , L;14 1 , i Wascriiir,l. F 01. ST()c.Ks T 4 15 111 . 11 • o. ('CLOCK. CC:44JIi. fv: ?. 65 a 67 ..4. Ann. . 65 i TuE SUN. saLL:I Q, Ul4 DICLAS ►ALSUM AUDICAT ? L 0 N D 0 N, MONDAY, DECENDER 5, 1808. Last nightPutch Papers to the 25 t h ult. reached town th , ,,y contain Paris news to the 20th. Buo 7 NA.PARTE I as at length condescended to notice the operations of his armies, in regular Bulletins . , and he boasts a 4 much of the advantages which. he has ob tained over the contemptible Rebel Force in Spain (to. use his own language), as he did fur the 'vic tories of Austerlitz, Auerstalt, or Friedland.— Thefirst of these Bulletins is dated the 9th ult. at Vittoria. It contains a detail of the operations of the armies down to the 77th, in which the French are, of course, represented as being uniformly suc cessf,;l. The loss of the Spaniards is represented as between three and four thousand killed and wound ed. The second Bulletin is dated the 12th, at Burgos, and gives an account of the attack upon the part of the Army of Estremadura which occupied Burgos. The Spaniards, it is said, were defeated with the loss of 3000 men killed and 3000 Prisoners. This certainly is a most singular circumstance, for the Count DE BELVEI.3II, who commanded the Spa niards upon that occasion, had not above 5700 men, and we know that he retreated in good order, with a coas;derable part of his force and yet the Bulletin gravely asserts, that he lost 6000 in killed and Pri- sonem A great number of reports were yesterday in respecting the progress of the French in the North of Spain. It was stated that a very large division of the French army had advanced as far as Benevento, and had completely cut off all. communication between the armies -of Sir JOBN 11fIootic and Sir DAVID BAIRD ; that the former, apprehensive of being attacked by superior forces , bad began his retreat to Portugal, and that.the latter, it st iiar real had made a retrograde mcive mew towards Corunna, breaking down the bridges, and degroying the roads in his rear. And it was fur ther added, ihatGoverncnent had received intelligence to the above effect. We are not till through what channel the above accounts Were received, nor are we inclined ro give them the smalles! credit. Govern ment, we can .state posi ively, have nut received 3ny such intelligence : at the same time it is by, no means improbdale, that in consequence of the rapid and unexpected advance of the French, the British Qenerlls may have halted, but this is. merely a matter Of co:;jeBnre. .We wait with impatience for some authentic intelligence respeEting the movaments of the Spanish Army on the Ebro : if the details which have reached us of its success be true, the right wing of the French must either retreat ix , ith as much celerity as it has advanced, or it will run the risque of being cut off. But it wo4ld be wasting the time of our Fie: tiers to enter into spt.-eulations upon this subjea, when we are not in posses:iion of the fa6ts. We feel great pleasure in assuring our Readers that the Su preme Junta has received the most sati,fatiory accounts from Mexico of the unanimous determina tion, on the part of the Inhabitants, to woke every possible exertion to atlbrd the most liberal peciiniary supplies for the support of the glorious contest in uhich the Mother Country is engaged. It was also reported yesterday evening, that a Telegraphic Dispatch had reached; the Admiralty in th e course of the day, announcing the defeat of the Spanish. Army. We are enabled to state positive ly that there is not the slightest foundation for this report. Yestetdny morning bi MAJit3TY; Princesses „AUGUSTA, SOPESIA, and AMELIA, ,:CCOlTlritied by Ladie:; CRANLEY, CAROLINE WALDEGRAVE, NIP4S VYSE, Gel;eral FiTzuoY, and Colcitiel Drs- BROW, rode to St. George's Chapel, and heard a Set - - pion preached h. - - the Rev. Mr. DIGBY, from St. Matthew, chap. :verse 17 : the Royal 'Party after-' wards returner:: t it ti e Palace. On Satur:vay the QUEEN and Princess ELIZBETH, accompanied by Li ;te-; C. WALDEGRARE, CRAN ;..EY, and AYLESBURY, took an airing. to Fnignic-re Lodge. I,t a short time after, the QUEEN was most gr3riously pleased to send for I , lr. BRADLEY, the Yorkshne Giant, who immediately attended. He remained in converot ion with the au CEN and Pa tN cusshs ; the) appeared well pleased with l.is genteel behaviour, and nii;ell surprised at his gig ntie sta ture. Her .113AJEt:TY made him a very handsome present. In the afternoon he lett Windsor .for 114 . - - 'ow. • Friday morning, his hIAJESTY, ,_Princeities Au- GUSTA, SOPLIIA, and AXELJA, Dukes ot - Kißsyr and cumAgaLAND, accompanied by Lady Mut; , C7O - FiTz4vv, Colonels DEsHituw andJ4Y.Lo,n, rode in 'Windsor Great Park, and returned to the.. Palace at twelv , ' o'clock. The Court of inquiry is expeEted to resume its sitr : t pgs to-morrow, and to proceed with the exatillo.• t pp of Lieutenant-General Sir-H. Buitzutn,l;i3rt. N AVA L. N EW S. 'NA" MOUTH, Dic. 3. A rri ttfl SIII3 Patriot Schooner, Capt. Foal), from Lishon, in ten days , . It is not understood,that she brings any intelligence of importance. Arrived the Elizateth, DEN SII A /it, from Malta, last trom Falmout Sailed the Revenge, of 74 pits, to join the Channel Fleet; and Betsey hired Cutter, to the Westward ; alio the Statira Frigate on a cruize ; and .Redpole Sloop of War, to the Westward. SHEERNESS, DEC. 3:L.:Arrived and sailed up•the River Hi, Majesty's Ship Hawke, and Zebra Bomb;, His Majesty's Ship Standard - from the Downs ; and Veslal and Paz Schooner from the North Sea. DEC. 4.—Arrived His Majesty's Gun-brigs Gal lant and Aggressor from the Baltic. Sailed up the River His Majesty's Ship Vestal to be paid otf. Came into Harbour His Majesty's Ships Standard and Minotaur. DEAL, Dze. 4.—Arrived and saile4 for the River the Melville, ROACH, from Rio Janeiro, in 54 days ; and the Albi-n, RANDELL, from Mogadore, with the loss of anchor's and cables. Sailed his Majesty's Brigs Furious and Flamer,with t he outward-bound, &c. under convoy, for Ports mouth. Arrived his Majesty's Ship Iphigenis from Quebec, and remains with his Majesty's Ships as per last. YA RMOUTH ROADS, DEC. 4.--His Majesty's Brig Dexterous is appointed.convoy for Plymouth, Escort for Guernsey and Jersey, and the ?elter for the Downs. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 4. Sailed' His Majesty's Ships Alfred to the westward ; .Ringdove for the West Indies ; and the Goshawk, with several Ves sels wider convoy, to join His Majesty's Ship Ca milla, and convoy for the Mediterranean. GREENOCK, Dec. 11.—Arrived on Wednesday the Assistithce, DONNELLY, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, •in six weeks; spoke no -Ships. The Auglitn, B.IOCHER, was arrived there from Clyde. , The Mary and Margaret, ----,- from Lisbon to Ayr, wrecked near fenny, iii Sou'h \Vales ; crew ,iipp6sed to be lost. The cargo, co! ! si,iing of _emolis end oranges, is landing under the direaton of Lord CA W DOR. FALMOUTH, Dec. 2.—Arriv , ..d the ilmcizon Ki/ig CL-orge Cutter, .3;id Resolution, "h aus port, atkP,Ell, from Lhc Coot lit Fra;,ce. Pu ba..k the Ship Actv &.aiancl, ELDON, bOULN:I CO NOW Soutil GOTTL:A'BUI4GH MAIL. SToCKIIOLM, NOV. 21 .—We have not received anv intelLgence fruin our armies in' Finlan.l and Norway. And must theretOre suppose, that since the last bank of Liens3lcni, nu operations 4:1 , au/Import ance have taken place. A Gentleman lately from Switzerland, states, that (he constitution of that country is to undergo a very i!oportant change; the plan oithe new constitution said to have been discussed and settled at the meeting in Erfurtil. All the different Cantons are to have the same form of Government, and a certain celebrated General is to be at the head of their con federative sytem. Leiters from Marseilles state, that King CHARLES IV. of Spain has actually proceeded to Nice. He was accompanied by the Queen, the young Infant, and the Prince of Peace and his Lady, and escorted by a numerous Guard of Honour, composed of (Dens d'Arines. One of the largest Hotels in Aix was hired for the reception of the illustrious travellers,. who will pass the winter in Nice. in consequence of leave lately having been given by the atoinan Porte to Austrian ships to enter the Black 'Sea. ships are expelled at Constanti nople, from Irieste, with rich cargws of manutlic tures and other goods. •DoCtor GUSTAV us has been appointed by the Prince Regent of Portugal, his Consul-General in Sweden, RA acknowledged as such by our Government.— (Stockholm Gazette, JVov. 2 1 .) On Saturday morning La Loire, Capt, Scum*. BERG, sailed froiit Portsmouth for Corunna, with g,200,000 dollars on board, for the .service of the Patriots, and with merchants' money for Cadiz, and Dispatches for Mr. DUFF, the Consul. M. Ai:ll.Bit- B ERG, the Swedish Minister to the Supreme hinta, and suite, went in her. The iVioe, - Captain Loartic, havint taken on board Lord JOHN FrrzttoY, and Mr. POLE, Secre tary to the Hon. W. VILLIERS, Ambassador to Por nigal, sailed on Saturday front PortStnouth for Fal mouth, where Mr. VILLIEUS embarks for Lisbon. It is an undoubted fa&, that Lieutenant-colonel PACK, of the 71st Regiment (Highland), has, since he entered the army, been engaged in 126 actions. Sir E. PELLEW had, at the date of the late ac counts from Bengal, dispatched from the' ce•three Frigates on a secret expedition to. the Eastw: rd. The new Farce announced. at the Hayo,arket Theatre, under the title of A School for Authors, is the . p.roduaion of the late Mr. TOBIN, Author of The Honey Noon. It was said that this Farce was wholly lost in :the fire at Covent-Garden, but fortu nately another copy had been kept. • A person being htely engaged in digging near the. entrenchments which surround the Castle at ,Botcrn, Lincolnshire,.discovered a ginall urn, containing up wards of Go.ll, , man coins. One of them is an aureuc of Nero, the others are deoarii, and sestertii of COll, tan I ine, Augustus, And BIRTH.—Ciu Sunday evening, in Bedford-square, the Lady of WILLIAm Colim a .Esq. of a Daughter. ANV IIISTORWAL RECITA4 OF T CAMPAIGN OF : BUONAPARTE IN ITALY,'• IN THE YEARS 176 AND 1797. PASSAGE OF THE MINCY.O, AND COMBAT OF THE BOROHETTO. We mentioned, in the foregoing Chapter, that the army of. BUONAPARTE arrived at Brescia, and, its environs, on the 4th of June, about three in the afternoon ; but we did not speak of two circum stances which well 'deserve to be noticed, because - they serve to display the petulant and presumptuous character of this man, who then' commanded an army for the first time, and who, at this period, was far more fit to obey than to command. First anecdote...--BUONAPARTE arrived at Brescia, a neutral-141d friendly city. , The Governor ordered' the draw-bridges to be raised, as he had done-when -BEAULIEU'S army arrived there : this -is a fad, of which I speak from my own knowledge, as I was then with the General. BeAut.rEu took no offence at it, and satisfied himself with procuring admis sion for some of his officers (of whom I was - one), and a small number of soldiers, commissioned make a few purchases for the army. 131:ONAPARTE aded in a different manner. Finding the gates shut, he demanded an entrance into the eity. The Governor replied, that he had received orders from Venice to iceeitheth shut, that he might be enabled to maintain a perfed . neurralitY. This reply offend ed the young. General, who declared that he Would' soon find means to elude the order. The Governor, whose post was not in a state of:defenpe, appre hended that his resistance might ComproMise the I Senate of .Venice, and therefore let down the draw bridges. The,army entered, and, according to cus tom, was instantly guilty of the - greatest outrages. I had, witnessed the passage of. BE /11.7LIEWS army, which had conducted itelf with moderation : was, also a winless of the entrance OLECONAPAIITE, who behaved with the most offensive arroganCe. The occasion of my stay 4.1 this city was a severe illness, which prevented me from rejoining the army of BIAULIEW, to whose staff I was attached. I thought it right to give this anecdote, not only to prove the habitual violence of,BVoNArABTE, but also to shew the injustice of the reproaches which he duetted against the Senate of Venice, for favour hi; BEAULIEU in his retreat. The truth is, that littAtmtzu-had always--respetted the- Venetian-terri tory; and he would have continued to respect it, if Isl.l(iNAPAicrg had pot viulated it as °len as lie found it convenient. It was not just that all the gates should be shut against the Austrian General, and all-- be open to the French General, in - a neutral State, equally the fitend ot Austria ,1:; France. At length, ligAuLazt) sized on Peschiera, but this was-. no t done till the French had given him the example, by seizing on the citadels of Brescia, Cream, and Ber gorna. The Commandant of Peschiera protested in vain against this evident violation, of a pepiral terri tory. 13Ea,m4Eu, for this once, paid no attention to . it, and taught the Venetians that the laws of neu trality were not, wade fur him alone. The second anecdote took place at the moment that Boots4PAIITE .was quitting Brescia. The Bene dictines, wherehe resided, had - provided a superb aficl magiiificLiii breakfast, to which almostalT the. no bility of Brescia was invited. It was on the morn ing of Sunday the . 9th of June. BootstarAnTE, be fore he mounted his horse, took leave of fhe com pany, and addressed this gracious invitation to them : " Citizens, I invite you all to Mantua next Sunday ; I shall have the pleasure of treating you there with a good dish" of ,coffee." One Of the guests, more intrepid than the rest, re, plied :—" We would wait on you, General, . with pleasure ; but I fear that this project,w ill not be in the : power of either of us.. We have seen your army defile ; but we have not observed any battering train. Without this, Citizen General, I doubt whe ther you will enter Mantua in so short a time." This observation - did not appear to please Buo- NAPARTE however, he immediately rejkiin,:d : " What do you mean by a battering train ? - All the artillery necessary is the sabre and the courage of republicans; yOu 'will find it by this trial. Re member your promise; I will be sure to keep mine." He then rode off, and the Nobles of Bres cia diverted themselves with - this rodomontade, of which they made no secret. BLIONAPARTE was most cruelly deceived•: he was six months before this place, which he expetied to carry in ,as, many days ! He discovered, at length, that courage• and the sabre were not sufficient, to • a town well fortified and well defended i .and • he sent for the heavy artillery in the fortresses of Piedmont and of the Ripe.. If he imagined that he should find a Commandant there as base and cow ardly as the wretch of Cherasco, he was compelled to change hie opinion in meeting with a man as firm and as •intrepid as the HerO of Ceva. This Offi,cer continued to make the most vigorous de, fence ; and BYQ.NAPARTE never' dared to publish an. gccount 9f the numbers, which 'he last eilhei by the terrible 'fire of il.e place, or Ly his assaults, nitv 3,l repulsed ; or by the frequent and destruCtive sorWi of the Garrison ; or by the maladies which Pre" vailed in that part of Italy. I can affirm, from t 1 first authority, that after I left Brescia, the hosP ll3l of that city and most of the churches, were croirj(; 4l with Founded Frenchmen, brought from the - vial!' of Mantua. For the rest, BUONAPARTE must have been firmly persuaded of the speedy fall of that fortress, since , before the mouth ot'Aiigust, that is, four months prt" vions to its capitulation, he had twice announced iti; surrender to the Directory of Paris ; and twice the Diredory had ordained' public feasts ,and rejoicing s on the subjed ! This condutit appears like absolut' madness, both in the General and the Diredory; but if the Reader has any doubt Of it, he has 9 1 4 to consult the Monitcur of that day. .It is no less certain, that this amazicg resistanc a must be attributed to BUONAPARTE it was be by quartering his, troops in .'Lombardy, after th c battle of Lodi, "gave time to BEAULISu to tbr° ll succour's into : Mantua,, to rep a i r th e fortification s ' and to send i 9, dayand:qigtit, ammunition ande r vision, without 'which this 'el t y never 6514 stood a siege which c o n s u me d ' more t h an ha lf ° ( the Frenchbrmy ! It was this repose, whi c h was 66 f•atal tOIitiONAPARTE, and so useful to BEAuLl 5 °' whether to revietual Mantua; or to raise strong bat teries on the banks of the Mincio; and render its passagelruly difficult. This was a military error the face of the world, and those Officers whd derstand their business" will never aciiatßljo°' PARTS. - Let - us now briefly turn to the passage of the Mincio, and the„potobat of,the Borghetto. I shall not dwell on these two events, 'at whic h was not present, being them on my march to tit. : Tyrol, where I found Mar Shit WURMSER,, NVIIO 1/0 4 been appointed to succeed BEAULIEU. If We 11 13 / judge of the passage of the Mincio, and its c ircuir stances, by the 'official report, we shall have 3 g re° idea of it; since BuozsArAaTE compares' it to thee affair of Lodi. lam not far from believing it, a fi f ti what I colleded from the O f fi cers w h o: j o i ne d° theTyrol; and yet the army of BLTONAPARTE 1131: 1 ° 11 ; to contend there w i t h t h e remains of BEAut-I °/' army ; but these remains were sufficient to WO and fatigue the French, who had nom been con sl9 derably strengthened' by the recent junction of 0113 ' army of Savoy. Another reseMblance between the !little of Li- - and the passage of the Mincio is, tt at litioNArAlt7 s makesno mention of his loss,:attboug4 , he•raiseso l .• - r of the enemy to tifteal hundred infantry, and #srli hurdrecl cavalry:--t" General Kti.m.s,tNc," says be P. " had his horse wounded on,ter hiin." appear as if this w a s th e o , l l y l oss on t h e part olt ° French. This very silence is a strong proOf tiga ins.. BUONAPARTE. No one can beiieve that tiles() 53113 soldiers of BEAuLtsu, who made so brilliant a de , fence at the bridge of Lodi, and so terrible $ c a r ' nage'of their enemies, had:de2( , noratec.l on the of the .Mincio. • -- One circumstance - noticed by BtiONAPARTE 11/ tP report, is sufficient to discredit toe whole of " The enemy," says he, " hasten , d to pass th ,! bridge, and to break down aleh of it, It 17 .'' repairing, with great difficulty, under the fire of enemy's batteries ; when fifty grenadiers, fa ° impatience, threw th emse l ves i nto t h e river, hl2' tA. ing their muskets above their heads, and having .Water up to their chins. General GARDANNS them on ! The enemy's soldiers believed that tb e o f f saw once more the terrible column of the bridge Lodi, the front ranks took to flight ! The bri d g e then easily repaired, and. our grenadiers, im an of in start passed the Mi uc i o , an d too k ppise s ) i°l l Valeggio, the 'head-quarters of BLAULinu, , 4 , 136 bad just left it." Fifty grenadiers, who wade through the Minc i( Y tip to their cliins, terrify the whole Austrian airnYl,. and put the van to flight! Flow is it possible t ti make dupes with .such despicable stories' 111 , 6 simple truth is, t h a t 13 En t alLo di spute d_th e pass 3 g of the Minclo for two days, after which, he coo" tinned his retreat, without any molestation, to the, Tyrol. To hecongnr. Marshal BRUNE, we understand, died in prisl at Paris on the fifth day of his confinement. tV'_, supposed be was poison e d ; BEION AP,I ETR Was . S°: much dissatisfied with him tbr travink'pllowed tl Swedes to escape, from Stralsund-,- that he slid 11° ,, would have 'll4ll shot if be were France. ROYAL ACADEMY.—A ballot took place, On 511 : turday evening, for th e P ro f essors hi p o f Anatorn)i when ,Mr. CARLI SLE Was c h osen hy a majority o twenty-five to tOur against Mr. BELL, A 4 SPANISH ARMIES.--Some o f th e c hi e f R e OO of the City mean to hold . a .illveting for the'pu r P. d ' e of entering,i n t o a su b sc riptithi in Order to pru v ,, l o i g Clothing, & - e. for the gallant armies of Spain. lIS suhscription will douotless be aided hv cou p ibou ° fiom the affluent all over titlgAbi); as the' c`itiso of Spain is the cause of the civilized woad. ‘; BRITISH INSI . ITOTIO . W.—The Sludetili Of cellent Asylum for the Fine arts held ib" .. lo ck niversary 'Dinner. on Ti4irstlay at the 1 1131c ,-,0 House. The P res i,a ent o f the 'RoYa I Acaden 3 Y. • -atv preient, and a coligitielahle nuinber,6f,y644 whose abilities,. tic, hosiourto